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CEZ has closed the balance of its flood-inflicted damages
Total cost of damages incurred - 766 million CZK
7. 1. 2004
CEZ power company is allowed to "court" Bulgarian regional distribution companies
On Friday, 19.12.2003, in the late afternoon, the Bulgarian Privatisation Agency confirmed in writing that CEZ power company had met all relevant criteria and thereby qualified for partaking in the privatisation of Bulgarian regional distribution companies.
22. 12. 2003
The first unit of the Orlik power plant re-launched for the first time since last year´s floods
The first out of four units of the Orlik hydropower plant was put into controlled operation, following over a year of inactivity. Most of the hydropower plants of the Vltava Cascade had to be put out of operation after last year´s devastating floods, and Orlik and Stechovice plants were the most seriously damaged ones. The Orlik powerhouse therefore had to go through a complex overhaul. After 16 months of a forced inactivity, the largest and most significant power plant of the Vltava Cascade began generating electricity again (output of 4 x 91 MW) .
19. 12. 2003
Next year, CEZ power plants will save 100 trainfuls of coal by combusting biomass
CEZ power company is entering a new stage, aimed at the utilisation of renewable energy, namely biomass. From the next year onwards, CEZ will use biomass on a much larger scale and with a long-term perspective. CEZ plants have incinerated 7 500 tons of biomass this year. Next year´s volume should exceed 130 thousand tons, thus substituting about 97 thousand tons of brown coal (of average calorific value), which would otherwise be incinerated by CEZ plants (the amount equals almost 100 trainfuls of coal).